Major tools and equipment used

Acquisition and processing of multibeam bathymetry 

Side-scan sonar data acquisition and processing

Seismic reflection profiling: data aqcuisition, processing and interpretation

Soil mechanical testing: triaxial and oedometer testing, including  Constant Rate of Strain and Constant Rate of  Stress Tests

Sedimentology lab: grain size, organic matter, shear strength, consistency limits

User of the following software tools:

• The “Swathed Tools” from the Ocean Mapping Group of the University of New Brunswick (Multibeam processing)

• CARAIBES(CARtographie Appliquée à l'Imagerie et la Bathymétrie des Sonars et sondeurs multifaisceaux) from IFREMER (Multibeam processing)

• MB-System (Multibeam processing)

• “Earth Vision” from Dynamic Graphics (3-D Modelling)

• ERDAS’ Imagine 8.3 (Image analysis)

• Generic Mapping Tools (GMT-5) (Mapping)

• ESRI's ArcGIS

• VISTA seismic package from "GEDCO"

• DELPH, from “Triton-Elics”

• “Kingdom Suite” from “IHS” (Seismic data interpretation)

• OpendTect from dGB

• Plaxis Geotechnical Software

• urGLE 2.8. Developed Fortran program for analyzing slope stability problems using limit equilibrium equations for both force and moment equilibrium.

• C-shell scripting

• Fortran programming

• Unix system administration (Linux, SunOS, Irix)

• Advanced Windows user